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spectively. The point in question is situated in the constellation 

 Hercules. 



We cannot terminate this slight sketch of the labors already 

 performed or in process of execution at the observatory of Pul- 

 kova, without expressing our admiration for so remarkable a 

 union which appears to exist there, between the means of obser- 

 vation, the most powerful and precise on the one hand, and the 

 ability and high degree of devotion on the other, which char- 

 acterize both the director of this establishment and the other as- 

 tronomers who labor with him. Science will owe a debt of grat- 

 itude to the Russian emperor, under whose auspices this magnifi- 

 cent observatory was founded and receives its support. 



Art. YIII. — Abstract of the Proceedings of the Fifth Session of 

 the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists. 



The fifth annual session of this Association was held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. during the week succeeding the 7th of May, 1844. 

 The sessions were held at first in the Medical College lecture- 

 room, but after the second day were adjourned to the Unitarian 

 Church. There were three sessions each day, of which the 

 evening was considered as more properly devoted to general and 

 popular discussions. The next meeting will be held at New Ha- 

 ven, Connecticut, on the 30th of April, 1845, and the week there- 

 after ; Prof. William B. Rogers being chairman, B. Silliman, Jr. 

 and Dr. J, Lawrence Smith secretaries, and Dr. Douglass Hough- 

 ton treasurer. 



Wednesday, May Sth, 12 M. — The Chairman, Dr. John Locke 

 of Cincinnati, called the Association to order, on the motion of Dr, 

 Houghton. Mr. B. Silliman, Jr. of New Haven, and Prof. O. 

 P. Hubbard of Dartmouth College, were made Secretaries, in 

 place of Dr. D. D. Owen of Indiana, not present. 



On taking the chair Prof Locke presented his thanks for the 

 unsolicited honor which had been so unexpectedly conferred 

 upon him ; alluded to the completion and suspension of the state 

 surveys, as a cause that would render it much more difficult for 

 the members of the Association to undertake the expense of 

 meeting ; that, under these circumstances, there should be every 

 effort made to preserve amongst the members that harmony and 



